What is a PADI Divemaster?
What most people know about Divemasters is that they were the folks helping on the dive boat or guiding them on their last dive in some exotic place while on … Continue Reading
Category: SCUBA
Divemaster Qualified
On November 24th, I obtained my PADI Divemaster qualification after completing a Total Immersion Program (TIP) at Sea Experience, located at The Bahia Mar Resort in Fort Lauderdale. We had planned to install … Continue Reading
Fish Identification Website – Reefguide.org
We carry a few of these little Fish ID cards with us since we first saw them on a charter a few years back. ID cards like these are available … Continue Reading
PADI Digital Underwater Photography
One of the specialty courses we take while on the Divemaster Immersion Program, is the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Course. I was looking forward to this as I have always … Continue Reading
Dive Master Course
Within our brief post announcing we had sold our boat, I said that we would take the opportunity to do something else. One of the something else(s) that I came up … Continue Reading
Who You Meet At The Dock
One of the many reasons we wanted to get into the cruising life was the inherent bouncing around (see what I did there?) from place to place, and the interesting … Continue Reading
The Cruising Guide To The Virgin Islands
One of the more useful items that we had for our most recent charter was The Cruising Guide To The Virgin Islands. You can see in the picture all the … Continue Reading
Full Face Snorkel Masks
We have heard about full face snorkel masks for a while now, and since we were heading back to the BVI we were anxious to give them a try ourselves. … Continue Reading
Caribbean Christmas Cruise – Day 7
Merry Christmas!! I woke up early and quickly saw that Santa had not found us in our Caribbean location. Captain Diego soon appeared with my copy of Boney M 20 Greatest … Continue Reading
Caribbean Christmas Cruise – Day 5, part 2
Our first dive on a wreck – we were excited! It was a short dingy ride from our anchorage at Salt Island to the RMS Rhone dive site. John was … Continue Reading
Caribbean Christmas Cruise – Day 3
We woke to a gorgeous morning. John found his way to a coffee and early morning swim before I even crawled out of bed! He spent some leisurely time on … Continue Reading
Maldives Diving
Another step in our (cruising) master plan was to get SCUBA qualified, and we wanted to combine it with a vacation to a “suitable” tropical location that we have yet … Continue Reading